Hundreds of Millions of African/ Black people worldwide from African nations, Jamaica & Caribbean, Brazil & South America, the U.S., Canada, and beyond annually "CELEBRATE KWANZAA"...the FIRST FRUITS...THE HARVEST...for seven days December 1st through January 1st. It is an African/Black traditional community celebration of the productive fruitful end of the year! In our homes as well as our community during Kwanzaa, we reflect and recommit to practicing our "seven faithful principles"! We are all grateful and thankful as a family and community.

We must continue to commit to raising up our people's AFRICAN HISTORY, TRADITIONS, CULTURE, and COMMUNITY VALUES of Unity, Self-determination, Collective work/responsibility, Cooperative Economics/ Communalism, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith.

Celebrate Kwanzaa!

Please check out below our music and cultural traditions...

Tuesday, December 13th, 6-7pm

EmPOWERED to Serve Class at the Southeast Raleigh YMCA

Hands Only CPR

Light refreshments will be served.

Help us support farmers of color!

Black farms and land loss during the COVID pandemic were way beyond the general average! As a way to promote our Farmers of Color who produce value-added products, we are supporting them. we are supporting the

Rural Advancement Foundation's effort.

And as a premium to say a special Thank You to donors.

These boxes make for great gift-giving — even to yourself!

They have three box types. We're sorry, but boxes cannot be individualized. Quantities of boxes are limited — first come, first served.

Pantry Box - For a donation of $200.00 or more

4 oz Adobo + 4 oz Sazón seasoning packets

TOTALITEA + HIGH ESTEAM tea packets

Honey (8oz)

Pickled Garlic Scapes (3oz)

Chocolate Nut Clusters 

 Personal Care Box - For a donation of $200.00 or more

Cracked hands salve (1oz)

PainEze salve (4oz)

Herbal body butter (5oz)

Lip balm

Elderberry syrup (8oz) 

Organic honey soap bar

Nut brittle (6oz)

Combo Box - For a donation of $300.00 or more

4 oz Adobo + 4 oz Sazón seasoning packets

TOTALITEA + HIGH ESTEAM tea packets

Creamed Honey (9oz)

Chocolate nut clusters (dark chocolate)

Herbal body butter (5oz)

Lip Balm

Organic Honey Soap bar

Each box includes a Farmers of Color Network refrigerator magnet

and a Farmers’ Profiles Insert.

They will USPS mail your box to any U.S. continental destination.

Boxes will be mailed within two weeks of receiving your donation.  

To make your donation and receive a Farm to You Box premium, click here.

Mark your Calendar for our Community Kwanzaa Celebration at FOLWCC!

Thursday, December 29th, 4-7pm

Music, Storytelling, Drumming, Dancing, Community Good News, and our Community Karamu (feast). If you’d like to help with continued planning and or/if you are an interested vendor contact Nathanette at (919) 876-7187.

Friday, December 30, 2022, 2-5pm

The Twenty-eighth Annual Kwanzaa Celebration

A Celebration of Service featuring the Fruit of Labor at

Cary Arts Center Auditorium, 101 Dry Avenue Cary, NC 27511

Jazz Musician Esperanza Spalding To Depart Harvard

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"I am no longer willing to endorse a cultural norm whereby artists & artist-educators passively participate-in, and benefit-from institutions born and bolstered through the justification..or practice of exploiting and destroying Black and Native life"

Prominent jazz musician Esperanza E. Spalding, a professor of the practice in Harvard’s Music Department, will depart the University, she announced in an email to department affiliates this week that was obtained by The Crimson.

Spalding wrote in the email that she has communicated with Harvard over “many months” about a proposal for a “decolonial education” curriculum she would like to implement as a course or initiative, but said what she aspires “to cultivate and activate in organized learning spaces is not (yet) aligned with Harvard’s priorities.”

A five-time Grammy award winner, Spalding joined the Music Department as a part-time professor of the practice in 2017 and has taught courses on songwriting, performance, and musical activism. Harvard typically appoints professors of the practice on five-year renewable contracts.

In an attachment to her email, Spalding included a description of her proposal for an educational initiative called “Black Artist-Educators Decolonizing and Placemaking.” She wrote that she believes the program would help institutions and instructors “move beyond metaphorical commitments to decolonial education, Black and Native solidarity (respectively), and reparations.”

Under the BAEDAP model, the University would “rematriate” some of its land and properties, offering the spaces to Black and Native artists, scholars, students, and activists. In the proposal attached to her email, Spalding described Harvard’s history as “inextricably linked to Black and Native subjugation,” adding that in order to maintain her relationship with the University, she would need to be involved in redressing the school’s “historical and lingering colonial impacts.” Read more here.

Fruit of Labor's Music CD "State of Emergency" is

NOW on Streaming Platforms!

AVAILABLE NOW!

Music and songs that inspire, engage, and liberate our spirit!

Enjoy Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble’s Album: State of Emergency

The album is available on

Amazon, Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube Music, iHeart Radio 

and many more streaming services and retailers. 

Happy Holidays from Our Family



This has been a rough year for FOLWCC and for our community. In the spirit of Kwanzaa, let us take time to appreciate and celebrate one another. 

FOLWCC wishes you and yours a Happy Kwanzaa and a powerfully fulfilling New Year.